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tioiis, and bore the name of the province. In 

 August 1746, an army of about nine hundred 

 French and Indians set out from Crowa 

 Point, under the command of M. de Vaudrieul, 

 to attack this place. They came before it, Au- 

 gust the tvyentieth. The fort was commanded 

 by colonel Hawks ; but thirty tliree persons 

 were in the garrison, including women and 

 children ; and the fort was not properly provi- 

 ded with ammunition. Hawks defended the 

 place with much fortitude and spirit, but at the 

 end of twenty eight hours, he had expended 

 his powder, and was obliged to propose terms 

 of capitulation. It was agreed that the garrisoii 

 should be prisoners of war, but that none of 

 them should be delivered to the Indians. The 

 day after the capitulation was eompleated, Vau- 

 drieul divided the prisoners, and delivered the 

 one half of them to the Indians ; one of the 

 prisoners being unable to travel, was immedi- 

 ately killed. The French general, when ac- 

 cused of an open violation of the capitulation, 

 assigned as the reason for his conduct, the state 

 of his army ; that they were in danger of a 

 mutiny, the Indians being highly irritated- that 

 they were by the capitulation deprived of their 

 part of the plunder and prisoners. Hawks lost 

 but one man in the siege ; and supposed he 

 could have preserved the fort, had he been 

 supplied with ammunition and provisions. 

 From the best accounts that he could procure, 

 the enemy, in those that were slain or died pf 

 their wounds, lost forty five of their men in this 

 enterprise, 



Mr. Shirley, to the astonishment of all 



